Container for toothbrushes



:Dec. 6, 1927. 1,651,496

H. M. WEINBERG CONTAINER FOR TOOTHBRLIISHES Filed April 12. 1926INVENTQR 64. 3040 meme/seq ATTORN EYS Patented Dec. 6,. 1927.

UNITED STATES HAROLD IALLCEI WEINB EBG, OI BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CONTAINER FOR TOOTHBRUSHES.

Application filed April 1a, 1926. Serial no. 101,449.

This invention relates to improvements in receptacles, and has articularreference to a container for tooth rushes.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved container in whicha brush or portion thereof may be placed and kept 1n a sanitarycondition when not in use and from which the brush or said portion maybe readily extracted preparatory to using the brush.

Another object is the provision of a contamer-adapted for the receptionof the brush portion of a tooth brush and from which the handle of saidbrush projects, a closure for the container being provided which, whenmoved to open position, will permit of the container being adjustedalong said handle in order to expose said brush portion.

The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the followingdetail description, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, which lllustrates preferred embodiments ofthe inventlve idea.

In the drawin Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of containerfor receiving the brush portion of a tooth brush, the container beingshown in closed and open positions in full and dotted lines,respectively;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through. the container illustrated1n Figure 1 Figure 8 is a similar view of a different form of containerfor the brush portion of the tooth brush;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of still another form of container;

Figure 5 is a plan view of a blank from which the closure of thecontainer shown in Figure 4.- is made; and

Figure 6 is a sectional view similar to Figure 2 showing another form ofthe invention.

Referring more particularly to Figures 1 and 2, the container hereinshown is of a size sufficiently large to enclose the brush portion of atooth brush 6 and is made of any suitable material, such as celluloid orthe like through which the brush is visible when contained therein. Thebody portion 7 of the container is preferably of rectangular formationand has an open end and an opening 8 formed in the opposite end thereofand adjacent the side wall 9 of the body portion. With the body portionconstructed in this manner the outer end of the handle of the brush mayfirst be inserted into the open end of the container and then throughthe openin 8 therein until the brush portion of sai brush is entirelycontamed within the body portion and engaged with the closed endthereof. The body portion may be provided adjacent the closed end with aplurality of ventilating openlugs 10, but it is to be understood thatthese openings may be dispensed with, if deslred.

A closure 11, made of the same material as the body portion, is providedfor the open end of the latter and consists of side flanges 12 whichextend alon the body port on and engage opposed wall s thereof. The sideflanges 12 are of substantially triangular formation and are pivoted, bymeans of eyelets 13 or the like, to said opposed walls of the bodyortion and adjacent the side wall 9. In t is manner the closure ispiveted to the body portion and capable of bemg swung to an openposition, as shown in dotteddlnes 1n Figure 1. In this connection,the'axls of rotation of the closure is so disposed with respect to theend of the wall 9 at the open end of the body portion that, when theclosure is swung about its pivot in either direction, the inner surfaceof the top of said closure will momentarily come into frictional contactwith said end of the wall 9. This frictional contact is designed for thepurpose of preventing accidental or unintentional movement of theclosure toward its open position, thereby insuring that the closure willremain in closed position until pressure is exerted thereon to overcomesaid frictional contact. This frictional contact occurs when opening theclosure at the beginning of the swinging movement thereof and hence itwill be seen that the open end of the body portion will be maintainedclosed until such time as it is desired to use the brush. Thelongitudinal edges of' the side flanges 12 of the closure ad acent thewall 9 of the body portion are connected by a transverse strip 14 whichwill engage said wall and act as a closure for the small space betweenthe end of said wall and the adjacent portion of the closure 11.

When it is desired to use the brush the closure 11 may be swun to theopen position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1 whereu on the containermay be move along t e handle of the brush to said dotted arrangedadjacent the wall 9 of the body portion are disposed contiguous to theoposite wall. Therefore, the closure 15, when eing opened, will swing inan opposite direction to the closure 11, as indicated in dotted lines inFigure 3.

As described in connection with the closure 11, the pivots 16 are sodisposed with respect to the adjacent side wall that the end of theclosure will have a momentary frictional engagement with the adjacentend of said side wall so as to frictionally maintain the closure in itsclosed position. From the foregoing description, it will be apparentthat the container shown in Figures 1 and 3, each provides an efiectiveclosure for the brush portion of a tooth brush so that the same may bekept in a sanitary condition when not in use. When the brush portion isthus enclosed the handle 6 maybe suspended in the usual manner in abrush rack, or hung from a hook by means of the opening 6 formed in thefree end of the handle.

In Figure 4. there is illustrated a container made of the same materialas the previously described containers and consisting of a body portion17. The body portion 17 is provided with a closed end adjacent which aplurality of ventilating openings 18 may be formed, but these openingsmay be dispensed with, if desired. One of the side Walls of the bodyportion may also be provided with an opening 19 adjacent the .open

end of the body portion which will permit of the container beingsuspended from a book, if desired.

A closure 20 is cut from a single sheet b of the same material as thebody portion. The blank for this closure is shown in Figure 5. whereinit will be seen that said blank be is cut longitudinally at each end andon opposite sides of the central portion 21 to form pairs of flanges 22which are initially bent at right angles to said central portion alongthe dotted lines 23. The central portion 21 is then bent along a linecoincident with the inner adjacent edges of the flanges 22 of each pairso as to cause the free ends of said flanges to be overlapped anddisposed diagonally with res ct to each other. The flanges are providewith openings 24 adjacent their outer ends, which openin are broughtinto registration when the are overlapped so as to receive the eye etaor other pivoting means 25, said eyelets also extending through the sidewalls of the body portion medially of the longitudinal edges thereof soas to pivotally mount the closure 20 centrally of the open end of thebody portion. Thus the closure may be swun in either direction to openosition, as ilustrated in dotted lines in i ure 4, so that the containermay be moved a ong the handle of the tooth brush as described inconnection with the other forms of the invention.

-The form of the invention shown in Figure 6 comprises a rectangularbody portion 26 having the open end 27 which is adapted to be partiallyclosed by means of a closure 28 somewhat similar to the closure 15 shownin Figure 3. This closure is pivoted at 29 in the same manner asdescribed in connection with the other embodiments of the invention soas to have a slight frictional contact with one of the walls of the bodyportion. Instead of having the opening for receiving the handle of thebrush in the body portion, as shown in the other forms of the invention,this opening is formed in the closure 28 and is indicated by. thenumeral 30. Thus in this form of the invention the brush portion of abrush is inserted into the body portion 26 while the closure is in openposition, after which the closure is closed with the handle of the brushprojecting through the opening 30 in the said closure.

What is claimed is:

A container for tooth brushes, including a body capable of enclosing thebrush portion of the brush and having an open end and an opening formedin the opposite end contiguous to one of the side walls of said body,and through which opening the handle of the brush is capable of beinginserted to position the brush portion within said ody, a closure forthe open end of said body including side flanges, means for pivotingsaid flanges to the body, said means ing so disposed relative to theopen end of the body as to cause a frictional contact between portionsof the body and closure when the latter is being swung to open andclosed positions, and a strip connecting adjacent ed es of said flangesconti uous to the open end of said body. h

In testimony whereof I .have aflixed my signature.

HAROLD nanaour WEINBERG.

